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Show Electricity's Beginnings. Tho term "electricity" wns derived from thu Greek word meaning amber. Klcctrlclty Itself Is earliest described by ThcophrasttiB (321 II. C.) and Pliny (70 A. 13.), who mention tho power of amber to attract straw and dry leaves, Dr. Gilbert of Colchester, physician to Queen Elizabeth (1540-1C03) may bo , considered tho founder of tho science, ns ho appears to havo been tho first philosopher who carefully repeated tho observations of tho ancients nnd applied ap-plied to them tho principles of philosophical philo-sophical Investigation. |